In the next few days, Li Bai and others, together with the Meng Mansion family members, cleared out some valuables from the ruins of the Meng Mansion, and luckily rescued some Meng Mansion servants who were buried underneath. Everyone was very happy.
A few days later, Meng Haoran learned that Zi Yan was going to find the elixir to save the master, so he asked a few people to leave as soon as possible.
Li Bai and others saw that the reconstruction of Meng's Mansion could not be completed in an instant and that it was important to save Mrs. Xihe, so they no longer were polite and said goodbye to Meng Haoran, preparing to set off to Jiuhua Mountain in Qingyang to search for the blood of the Monkey King.
When Ziyan's parents learned that their daughter was leaving again, they were determined not to allow her to enter the world as a woman.
In desperation, Zi Yan had no choice but to take Li Bai and Sima Heng home, saying that the three of them would go with them, which reassured her parents.
The parents of the Xu family admired Li Bai's talent, lofty ambitions, and talents. They also saw that their daughter and Li Bai were in love, and they were very happy.
They originally wanted to set a good match for the two of them, but seeing that Zi Yan was eager to save her master and had no intention of talking about marriage, they had to put it aside for the time being and agreed to let Zi Yan find the antidote for her master first before discussing life-long matters.
After obtaining the consent of their parents, Zi Yan and the others took a boat from Anlu to Jiuhua Mountain in Qingyang.
In February of the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan, Liang Dahai, the official of Yongzhou, raised troops to occupy Binzhou and Hengzhou. Yang Sixu, the imperial servant, led his troops to suppress it. In December, Yang Sixu defeated Liang Dahai, killed more than 20,000 of his people, and captured Han alive.
There were more than 3,000 people including Liang Dahai.
Liang Dahai's general Wu Houren once served as the head of the Tangming Pavilion in Yongzhou, and Li Zuneng, Yang Sixu's main forward, once served as the head of the Tangming Pavilion in Luozhou. Because the two men led many Tangming Pavilion scholars and officials to participate in this redress, it was called the Tangming Pavilion Civil War in the martial arts.
The internal struggle in Tangming Pavilion was brought to the fore.
When Xuanzong learned about it, he was furious and issued an edict, ordering Tangming Pavilion to conduct self-examination and remove those who disagreed with the imperial court from Tangming Pavilion. A storm arose within Tangming Pavilion, and the struggle became stronger. The monastic, enlightened, and evil sects all wanted to use the chaos to eliminate dissidents. Tangming Pavilion
Unprecedented chaos, Wu Xiucai, Wu Juren, and Wu Gongshi were killed and injured countless times, and countless bloody storms broke out in the world.
This incident was called the Tangming Pavilion Riot in Wulin.
While Li Bai and the others were on the boat, they received a letter from He Daquan. Murong Canghai took advantage of the Tangming Pavilion to riot, and framed them, the dozens of Tangming Pavilion scholars who had defected to Li Bai, as rebels. The Jinling Tangming Pavilion drafted the document and reported it to the Tangming Pavilion General Pavilion.
Drive these people out of Tangming Pavilion. Moreover, Murong Canghai already knew that Li Bai and the others were not dead, and secretly devoted all the power of Jinling Tangming Pavilion to hunt down and kill the three of them. Therefore, the three of them must be careful.
After Li Bai read the letter, he lamented that the world was in chaos, and he must step up his efforts to break through. The countermeasure was to become the leader of the martial arts alliance as soon as possible.
He wrote back to He Daquan, asking all the brothers to stay at Sima Mansion in Anhan quietly, practice more and keep a low profile as much as possible. He and Sima Heng would go back to join everyone after finishing the matter.
After nine days of sailing, we finally arrived at Jiuhua Mountain in Qingyang.
Jiuhua Mountain has high mountains, dense forests, and beautiful scenery. The nine main peaks are like nine lotus flowers, which makes people marvel at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature.
Li Bai and the other three were intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of the mountains.
There are many monkeys in Jiuhua Mountain. They are in groups, jumping around in the dense forest from time to time, and some are climbing and playing on the cliffs.
But where is the Monkey King?
Li Bai took out the sky bag and looked at the monkey king with unusually long arms, unusually strong arms and two tails, and fell into deep thought.
Seeing this, Sima Heng patted Li Bai and said, "Don't think about it, just look everywhere!"
Li Bai came back to his senses and smiled helplessly, "This is the only way now."
So the three of them approached in the direction of the monkey group.
But this monkey seemed to be very afraid of people, and it had already fled without a trace before anyone could get close.
Monkeys are expert climbers. Whether it's a giant tree or a cliff, nothing can stop these mountain elves.
Li Bai had no choice but to pull Zi Yan and Sima Heng together, use Ling Yun Fei, and chase the monkeys from the sky, but after several days of chasing, he still couldn't find any trace of the monkey king.
However, they flew up and down in the sky every day, which immediately attracted the attention of some woodcutters and tourists. These people had never seen the strange thing of people flying in the sky, so they all thought that the three of them were gods descending to earth. For a time, Jiuhua Mountain
News of the presence of immortals spread throughout Qingyang County.
Wei Zhongkan, who was the magistrate of Qingyang County at that time, did not dare to neglect after hearing the news, so he took his servants to Jiuhua Mountain to pay homage to the immortal.
As soon as they reached the middle of the mountain, they happened to encounter Li Bai and three others flying in the sky.
Suddenly, they were all shocked and hurriedly bowed down and did not dare to get up for a long time.
Li Bai and the others saw someone in official uniform kneeling to them in the air. They were surprised and hurriedly came down to the ground.
When he got to the ground, Li Bai asked: "What is the reason for your lord to kneel down to us?"
"You are the immortals of Mount Jiuhua. When we ordinary people see you, of course we must kneel down and worship you."
"Sir, please wake up. You have misunderstood. We are not immortals. I can fly in the sky because I have realized the Heavenly Skill of the Supreme Lord, Lingyun Step."
When Wei Zhongkan heard this, he was a little doubtful, but seeing that Li Bai's words were serious and it didn't look like a lie, he said, "Are you really not the immortal of Jiuhua Mountain?"
"That's not true. My name is Li Bai, his name is Sima Heng, and her name is Zi Yan. We are all candidates for the Tang Ming Pavilion." After saying that, Li Bai took out the election token from the sky bag and handed it to Wei Zhongkan.
Wei Zhongkan took it and saw that it was indeed a token of martial arts. But he was still amazed by Li Bai's ability to fly to the sky, and said: "Even if the three of you are not immortals, they are capable people in acquiring immortal skills. I am Wei, the magistrate of Qingyang County."
Zhongkan, I want to meet three people today."
Sima Heng laughed and said, "Mr. Wei, we have always been good friends. Thank you for your kindness, we are extremely honored."
Li Bai also said, "Yes, it's not too late for us to be happy about being able to interact with Mr. Wei."
"Okay, then please ask some of you to follow me back to the house, and I will help you clean up the dust! Also, don't say goodbye to County Magistrate Wei. If Mr. Wei calls you this way, just call him Wei Zhongkan."
"Okay!" Li Bai and Sima Heng were not polite people and agreed immediately.
Li Bai said: "Wei Zhongkan, let's put aside the matter of visiting Wei Mansion for now. We have a request for now."
"Li Bai, you're welcome. If you have anything to say, please tell me."
"To be honest, a few of us came to Jiuhua Mountain this time to find medicine and save people."
"Oh, no wonder you are flying around in the sky every day. It turns out that you are looking for medicine to save people. I wonder what medicine you are looking for? I have been a county magistrate in Qingyang for many years, and I am very familiar with Jiuhua Mountain. I should be able to help.
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"I just want you to help." Li Bai cupped his hand and continued: "We are looking for the Monkey King on Jiuhua Mountain! We want to get a drop of the Monkey King's blood, but we can't find the Monkey King!"
"Monkey King on Jiuhua Mountain? Two-tailed Monkey King?" Wei Zhongkan said.
When Li Bai and the other three heard this, they immediately became happy.
Zi Yan immediately asked: "Wei Zhongkan, do you know this monkey king?"